Matt and Ashlee: Pictures taken Feb 13, 2011. Today we cleaned and organized the shed, and worked on the wall around the shed.

Snow solutions

The snow has been rediculous.  I am determined not to be marooned by it so here is yet another attempt to keep the roads open.  This snow is 15 inches deep.  The blower can clear it off to within about an inch of the ground.  I would go lower but it begins to throw gravel if you plow too deeply

It takes about four passes to clear a lane wide enough to drive on.  Next step is to spill a barrel of gasoline on the snow and light it.

SNOW!!!

Snow everywhere!!! Are we really going to live here?

So Now What?

The shed is more or less done.  What next?  As you can see, fall had arrived.  We have had the land for nearly a year.  The road is in, the shed is built, and not we are thinking of building a house or two near the ridge.  Matt and Ashlee have been clearing the down wood off the land and carting it away in our Kabota.

This is not nearly as much fun as building a shed.  Its slow work, but M and A seem pretty excited about building and that helps motivate.

Nice day for sawing wood and clearing the land.

On the road we have evidence of grass finally coming up through the straw mat on the sides.  It's about time

Cutest grandson in the world visits the dinosaur "puppet" show.

True enough, this is not on topic, but I couldn't resist posting these pictures of Harding, the worlds cutest grandson.  Barbara and I took him to the "museum" of animated metallic dinosaur puppets.  Here he is at the controls of that pair of raptors in the background.  Its pretty shocking what he can make them do.

Transcendental concentration.

This was one of his favorites

Initially the whole thing was pretty scary.  We had to tour once around the gallery like this just to be certain.

Shed, check!

The finished product!

Family photo complete with dogs (except Bailey)

Matt and John putting on the last sheet of tin.

Looking up from garden and Grandpa Kinnaird untangling some rope.

From the back toward the view of Swannanoa

So...I'm finally getting around to posting a blog! The blog, in fact, that everyone (John, Barbara, and Trip) has been harassing me about! The shed is finally complete! (Although these pics were taken some time ago) To celebrate, we had a family picnic since Grandpa Kinnaird was in town! The day turned out to be a little colder than expected, but enjoyable none-the-less. Since then, we've had a small scale work party and completed yet some other important tasks and there will be pictures to follow...sometime. However, here are the latest pictures of the completed shed and a picture of everyone! Although it's a great accomplishment to finally finish the shed, I can't say that I'm not a little disappointed that it's over, it was a fun family project!

Shed nears completion

We had some help today just when it was needed the most.  Thanks guys.

Ashlee (in red) and myself (I think) putting up tin.

Nice setting.  You can see the vineyard posts on the left.

Cute little shed.  One and 1/2 pieces of tin left to put up on this side, and only 1/2 piece to go on the other.

We really thought we would finish today but threats of serious rain chased us home.